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Washingtonian Residential Design Award

Signature at Reston Town Center
Reston, VA

Shalom Baranes Associates
Interior Design Consultants: Hartman Design Group
Landscape Architects: LSG Landscape Architects
Structural Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP Engineers: WSP
General Contractor: HITT Contracting

The Signature at Reston Town Center, designed by Shalom
Baranes Associates, is a mixed-use project consisting of two Courtyard of the Signature Photo © Alan Karchmer / OTTO
wings capped by slender residential towers that together offer at Reston Town Center.
a total of 508 apartments. The project is the last major piece of while the ends of the building, with additional recessed
a decades-long master plan and build-out of developer Robert outdoor spaces, accentuate the corner units. The creation of
Simon’s vision for an interconnected network of urban villages additional corners increases the quality of interior light and
in Reston. outward views.”
For the towers’ facades, “the design team sought an On the project’s lower floors, part of its above-grade parking
appropriate strategy for a building sited along the most is screened from view by a cluster of three stacked duplex units.
prominent corner of Reston Town Center,” the firm said. Their The colors of the project’s brick masonry were carefully chosen
solution was a sleek design with crisply punched windows that to highlight the project’s three-dimensional massing.
are spaced regularly in some places and irregularly in others. In commending the project, the jurors noted that “it’s easy
The project “inverts the typical configuration of bay to do a sweet little house, but it’s hard to get it all right with a
windows and/or projecting balconies to articulate the facades,” big building, and this one does.”
the architects said. “Instead, the team kept the flanks clean
with recessed outdoor space, and articulated the ends of the The project was previous covered in the Fall 2019 issue
buildings.” The window pattern “reflects the residential use, of ARCHITECTUREDC.

The two towers of the Signature at Reston Town Center. Photo © Alan Karchmer / OTTO